Five Kinds of Silence by Shelagh Stephenson

This powerful drama from the BBC is based on an actual murder case which occurred in the north of England in the early 90s.

A man keeps his wife and two grown daughters in a kind of slavery. He controls every aspect of their lives and demands absolute obedience. He is often violent towards them, and regularly rapes his daughters.

Then his sickness makes him vulnerable, and the women take action.

Five Kinds of Silence won the UK Writers Guild's Best Original Play award and a Sony Award for Best Radio Drama.

Director: Jeremy Mortimer

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